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Book Reviews of Self-Made Man

Self-Made Man
SelfMade Man
Author: Norah Vincent
ISBN-13: 9780739470732
ISBN-10: 0739470736
Pages: 290
Rating:
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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3.4 stars, based on 10 ratings
Publisher: Viking
Book Type: Paperback
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reviewed Self-Made Man on
Helpful Score: 2
Great book! The book is well-written, easy-to-read and held my attention. I finished it in a couple of days. The author spent 18 months as a man by basically infiltrating different social and work groups to learn more about the male experience in the world. She joins a bowling league, works as a door-to-door salesman, visits a monastery, goes to sex clubs and dates women as a man. She is very observant and gains some really great insights into the male psyche and also some insights about women too. She reveals herself as a woman to most of the people she befriends and discusses the implications of this and also how the experience affected her.
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I could not get through this book. Although the topic is very interesting, I feel like the author is lecturing me instead of just telling the story. I realize that it was a social experiment but I would have enjoyed it more if it just told the story and the experiences without trying to give life lessons on men and women on nearly every page.